All surviving British prime ministers and US presidents have received invitations, along with a representative for Ronald Reagan's family, as his widow Nancy is too frail to travel.

The Queen and Prince Philip are confirmed to be attending the service, which will take place at St Paul's Cathedral in London. It will be the monarch's first funeral service for a British politician since Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.

Jeremy Clarkson, Sir Terry Wogan and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber are among those from the world of showbiz to have received invites.

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The Daily Mail hails Margaret Thatcher as "the woman who saved Britain", while the paper launches a campaign for "Britain's greatest peacetime PM" to be given a state funeral.
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